2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi. The prize was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on 8 October 2025.

The citation

The citation reads: "for the development of metal-organic frameworks". They share the prize equally.

The laureates

Susumu Kitagawa was born in 1951 in Kyoto, Japan, and is affiliated with Kyoto University, Kyoto. Richard Robson was born in 1937 in Glusburn, United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Melbourne. Omar M. Yaghi was born in 1965 in Amman, Jordan, and is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.

Why it matters

Metal-organic frameworks are materials full of tiny holes that can capture gases such as carbon dioxide or pull water from desert air. Robson was born in Glusburn, Yorkshire.

The prize

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor, divided between the laureates. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.